Microsoft Teams status
2026-07-10 04:04 UTC
Replies (21)
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@red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-07-10 04:37
I have Java on my machine. So I wrote a small program that moves the mouse one pixel every minute. Forever green.
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@daellat@lemmy.world 2026-07-10 04:54
It also eats up to 1,5gb of ram sitting idle as a chat program. So yeah it’s not running unless I need it and then it gets to shut down again. Luckily we don’t use it as our primary chat tool.
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@python@lemmy.world 2026-07-10 04:56
Use a program called Caffeine. It presses F15 every 59 seconds. Nice thing is that F15 is a largely unused button, so it doesn’t interfere in any way when you’re actually doing something on the computer (classic mouse wigglers are very annoying in that regard)
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@20cello@lemmy.world 2026-07-10 04:57
And slightly wet
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@SailorFuzz@lemmy.world 2026-07-10 04:57
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@Skyrmir@lemmy.world 2026-07-10 05:09
I just tell them it doesn’t work on my system.
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@Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 2026-07-10 05:10
I run teams in a PWA on Linux which doesn’t have permission to check if I’m using my computer or not so I’m always listed as away unless I’m interacting with Teams directly. I hate teams so much.
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@myster0n@feddit.nl 2026-07-10 05:13
Sometimes Teams doesn’t even know if you’re online during a video call
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@PM_ME_YOUR_ZOD_RUNES@sh.itjust.works 2026-07-10 05:30
Unlike many others in this thread, I can’t download any programs on my work laptop. I just don’t have permissions. So I found a much lower tech way of staying green. I go to the chat with yourself chat. Then I put a 3 pound weight on the backspace button. This keeps me green forever. With my old work laptop, I was able to press backspace then wedge a set of tweezers in the key to hold it down. Whatever works lol.
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@toiletobserver@lemmy.world 2026-07-10 05:55
If you join a meeting with yourself only, you can manually set your status to available and it will never go to away.
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@houndeyes@toast.ooo 2026-07-10 05:56
I seem to remember a blank custom status being enough to stop the indicator going yellow, no mouse movements necessary. Is that no longer the case?
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@aesthelete@lemmy.world 2026-07-10 06:15
I downloaded jiggler on my MacBook and never looked back.
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@combatfrog@sopuli.xyz 2026-07-10 06:16
Guys just open word and have something press the page down key, for example a game controller. Pc never sleeps, and you’re always green on teams/webex/whatever. Keep it simple.
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@medem@lemmy.wtf 2026-07-10 06:22
It is deliberate.
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@Telemachus93@slrpnk.net 2026-07-10 06:25
I’m so glad we use Matrix at work. Our IT department even tells us explicitly not to use Teams if we can avoid it.
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@Tikiporch@lemmy.world 2026-07-10 06:32
With a mouse jiggler, you can control your status manually, even from your phone while you’re in bed. Away at five, Busy at nine, Available when I’m actually at the keyboard only if necessary.
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@ZeDoTelhado@lemmy.world 2026-07-10 06:42
Using team status to know if you are working or not is both rudimentary and unreliable. There are a lot of times the status is just displayed wrong, besides, if stuff is getting done, then that is a sign you are working
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@randombullet@programming.dev 2026-07-10 07:02
I setup a meeting with myself so that it’s always red. No green, just red, so I’m always busy.
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@Endmaker@ani.social 2026-07-10 07:03
What I did was to set it to “Away” permanently
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@mlatu@moist.catsweat.com 2026-07-10 07:21
here nobody uses it anyway, so i dont even log on :3
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@da9l@lemmy.ml 2026-07-10 15:51
I’m going to give you a mega useful tip. You need to create a group. You can kick the user later and say it was an accident. Then you start a meet inside of that group. You can be the only one in the call. Change your status from Busy to available again on top. Just leave yourself muted inside of that Teams call. Your Teams will never go inactive and neither will your laptop.